You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. The past is history. The future is mysterious. Then tomorrow—this starts all over again.

A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.

It came as naturally to him as breathing or lying, or worse. His mama had only taught her son to be cautious at all times. Garnette was more than that. Much, much more than that.

He who limps is still walking.

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

If ever there was a proverbial truth, it's the more you give, the more you get. Give and start experiencing a life of fulfillment!

I love going to the G4 sci-fi-type parties.

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.